Automounting of user directories on Linux

[Kendrick Vargas]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Thien Vu wrote:

> We would like to implement a NFS type system, but I can't quite figure out 
> how to have the user's home directory, which is exported as an Samba share, 
> mount to the local machine. I would like to do it with out have the user 
> become root. Is this possible? I've taken a look at various options in 
> mount, fstab, smbmount and smbmnt. Any suggestions would be useful.

since I haven't gotten this working myself, I'm hesitant to suggest
it. Look into enabling autofs and (do a man on "autofs" and/or
"auto.master" (auto_master or otherwise depending on your OS).
			-peace

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